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4 summits • 32.2 km • 2,515 m gain • 15 hr 40 min
1 summit • 12.9 km • 1,305 m gain • 10 hr 22 min
1 summit • 24.9 km • 1,320 m gain • 6 hr 58 min
1 summit • 26.6 km • 2,352 m gain • 10 hr 0 min
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"Climbers scramble: Heart - Twin Towers - Barclay - Lorette - Skogan - McGillivray traverse
31.75km with 2,967m gain; 15:40hrs car-to-car (6:45am - 10:25pm); 7.5L of water!
Solo.
Heart Mountain: summited at 8:05am, spent 20mins
Grant MacEwan Peak: 8:50am
Twin Towers: 9:40am / 25mins
There are quite a few TR's in the Net, including description of the route's crux (DC1), a downclimb. If you weren't comfortable with it, then it'd be better to stop at the Towers, as further is even more difficult.
Skipped the West Tower as already did it before and wanted to avoid unnecessary gain/loss.
"Mr Barclay": 11:10am / 10mins
A high point on the ridge with elevation at 2,240m and prominence 100m+. Has a cairn. As it was unnamed and the rock structure is very similar to Mary Barclay's, called it in that manner.
When heading from the Tower, aim for a slope between two of them, follow a treeline that goes down along rock until you can easily traverse to the right toward the first notch on the ridge. Scramble it up and stay on the ridge. That IS the easiest way.
Had an unsuccessful attempt last year, where we turned back at a downclimb (DC2), so I brought a rope for rappelling. I..." — alexp • Jul 14, 2017
"Cycled 5 km north from Stoney parking lot to base of Lorette scree gully. Scrambled to Mt. Lorette Summit (were lucky to find a source of drinking-water in the gully) for a lunch break and then traversed along a 2.5 km-long connecting ridge northward to Skogan Peak. Spectacular scenery. The weather became threatening with distant thunder and sprinkles of rain on our way back and we hurried back along the ridge and down the gully." — geoffc • Aug 9, 2016